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  1. Re:what about acting?? on Star Wars: Revelations Available Online · · Score: 1

    True, but you could use Sorensen MP4 advanced simple - that works with standard QT installs and provides a better experience than SV3.1.

  2. Re:Jar Jar Binks on Star Wars: Revelations Available Online · · Score: 1

    Definitely

    Anakin ...and your punctuation could use some work, too.

  3. Re:Subtitles? on Star Wars: Revelations Available Online · · Score: 1

    Nope, the most popular would be QuickTime and MPEG4.

  4. Re:Subtitles? on Star Wars: Revelations Available Online · · Score: 1

    QuickTime has supported text tracks, chapter markers and about a thousand other niceties since its inception.

    Of course, ignorance of the capabilities of QuickTime is endemic on Slashdot so don't beat yourself up.

  5. Re:off-topic on Star Wars: Revelations Available Online · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Given? You know that money handed in over in exchange for goods or services is called PAYMENT, right?

  6. Re:Yeah... on A 2nd Core to Keep Windows Chugging Along? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Try getting the letters in the right fucking order you dolt.

  7. Re:Why should I care? on Hitchhiker's Movie is Bad, says Adams Biographer · · Score: 0

    That's why they keep churning out shit, because idiots keep paying to see it.

  8. Re:to be expected on Hitchhiker's Movie is Bad, says Adams Biographer · · Score: 0

    Hitckhiker's was a radio play.

  9. Re:Why should I care? on Hitchhiker's Movie is Bad, says Adams Biographer · · Score: 0, Insightful

    That's not too bright. Why not just give Hollywood direct access to your bank account?

  10. Re:Shortcomings of the reviewer on Shortcomings Revealed in nForce4 SLI Redux · · Score: 0

    "AMD is like the Japanese"

    Jesus, Americans are such fucking twats.

  11. Re:This is exactly why... on VLC & European Patents · · Score: 1, Informative

    Yep, VLC is pretty efficient. I use it to play D1 sized .mp4 files on my 500Mhz G3 - QuickTime and Mplayer drop about 10 frames per second - VLC doesn't even max out the CPU.

  12. Re:Metal Gear! on Homemade Mecha Walks in Japan · · Score: 1

    I don't really see that we were waiting for a walker anyway - ASIMO walks, dances and jogs just beautifully - Honda could scale his mechanisms up if a walking 'mecha' was actually NEEDED for anything.

  13. Re:Metal Gear! on Homemade Mecha Walks in Japan · · Score: 0

    I'm pretty sure it was designed and built to give nerds hard-ons.

  14. Re:Hmmm on Lunar Dust: A Major Worry for Moon Visitors · · Score: 0

    ESPECIALLY other countries.

  15. Re:Live on the Moon? Thank you smokers! on Lunar Dust: A Major Worry for Moon Visitors · · Score: 0

    Whereabouts in America is Sweden?

  16. Re:Don't hold your breath... on Forty Years of Moore's Law · · Score: 0

    There is.

    The PowerMac G5 or, if you must, some kind of two-way Opteron.

    Why limit yourself to Intel CPUs?

  17. Re:Keeping Count on Forty Years of Moore's Law · · Score: 0

    Real flames, eh?

    I can sense your powerful masculinity from here. I bet your F-150's gun racks send all the local boys crazy!

  18. Re:Torrent Roar! on 10.4 on Display at FOSE · · Score: 0

    Bit Torrent works just fine on my home Mac. Maybe you should brush up your drag-and-drop skills?

  19. Metal Gear! on Homemade Mecha Walks in Japan · · Score: 2, Funny

    It really makes my snake solid.

  20. Re:it is trivial actually on Logitech MSN Webcam Codec Reverse-Engineered · · Score: 0

    Illiteracy a public service?

    We're through the looking glass here people!

  21. Re:it is trivial actually on Logitech MSN Webcam Codec Reverse-Engineered · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You spell for s h i t ?

    That's not even the right number of letters!

    Why not install a spellchecking service you idle fuckwit?

  22. Re:Look! It's a Windows user! on Logitech MSN Webcam Codec Reverse-Engineered · · Score: 1

    Windows maintains webcam functionality while re-installing? That's one hardcore OS - talk about fault tolerance!

  23. Re:Your local station's pump isn't nearly enough on Car Powered by Compressed Air · · Score: 1

    "What in the world are you smoking?"

    Liquid Hydrogen, of course.

    "Generally, your first clue you have run into a hydrogen fire is when the flame has cut you in half."

    When was the last time this happened, to your knowledge?

    "Hydrogren flames can get as hot as 6000 degrees fahrenheit. That's hot enough to ignite aluminum. How much fun do you think it will be when the aluminum body of your car catches fire from a burning hydrogen jet?"

    Moderately toasty fun?

    "Let me tell you what's going to happen. Any shift to a hydrogen economy will simply result in using hydrogren cracked out of hydrocarbons. Translation: You'll still put gasoline in your tank, you'll just chemically extract the hydrogen from it and use it in a fuel cell. It may reduce emissions, but it won't reduce consumption of oil at all."

    I agree, the whole notion of a Hydrogen economy is absolute nonsense. A bio-ethanol / bio-Diesel economy is a much better bet, and something we could get to work on right away if legislation were put in place.

  24. Re:Still energy on Car Powered by Compressed Air · · Score: 1

    By 'passenger car' I rather meant (existing) passenger car, but I was not clear.

  25. Re:Nuclear energy is unsafe on Modified Prius gets up to 180 Miles Per Gallon · · Score: 1

    Err... we all know about ITER, but they haven't even STARTED building it yet. Call me back in a decade and a half.